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“I just told him I’m engaged,” I say lightly, and then, turning my head, blink in surprise to see that it’s the young man with all the

tattoos. The one I had noticed, earlier, when we’d first arrived at

the beach. “Oh!” I say, surprised into exclamation.

He smirks at me and, predictably, I blush. I scowl, really wishing I

didn’t do that all the time.

“So,” he says, giving me a friendly smile. “Apparently you’re the lady of the hour.”

“Am I?” I say eagerly, leaning in, hoping this guy can give me a clue about what’s going on. “Do you know anything about this?” I look around at all of the guys. “Like, why there are so many guys

here?”

“Because, Fay,” the guy says, laughing. “It’s a meat market. Your dad invited all of these guys here to meet you. Specifically, to meet you.” He raises his eyebrows at me, confirming that he means exactly what I think he means.

“Are you serious?” I whisper to him, angry. “My dad is seriously bacheloretting me!?”

He laughs at that and then nods. “Yeah. Imagine his dismay when your fiancé showed up, too. Luckily, he got his kid to distract him.”

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“Oh my god,” I say, shocked, my eyes going to the volleyball game where I see Daniel and Romulus giving each other high

fives. “Even little Romulus is in on it!?”

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again, shaking his head. “They get ‘em young, in this world,” he says, apparently enjoying my shock. I turn back to him, then, studying him, and realizing that he’s not

hits me

well.

the two of us are laughing together, me a little hysterically, him along for the

god,” I say, leaning back in my chair and resting a hand against my chest as the laughter

smiling at me gently. “That he has a very

right.”

little worried. I’ve been engaged since birth, apparently – an arrangement my father set up. What on earth had changed that

meet new people?

you?” I ask suddenly, cocking my head to

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that we haven’t been

of the candidates?”

and shrugs, “I am if you

onto my lips, then. He’s terribly handsome, this young man with the dangerous tattoos climbing all the way up to his neck. And, he’s

me in these past

says, leaning over the side

a shake,

take his hand on instinct, but my blood goes cold as I realize exactly

Ivan.

Ivan.

enemy, the guy

and withdraws his hand. But his face stays friendly as he studies me. “I see my

staring at him with

to say.

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